An Elvis impersonator who sang for Elton John and appeared on The Jerry Springer Show has been jailed for 12 months over sickening child porn offences.

Merseyside entertainer Louis Fella, who boasted of being Britain’s No.1 Elvis tribute act, was caught when more than 900 indecent photographs and videos of children were found on his computer.

The 53-year-old also shared some of the images with other perverts by Skype and email.

Sentencing him Judge Andrew Hatton said: ‘Significant numbers of young children experienced abuse and vile degradation in order that you could obtain sexual gratification.

‘You compound the abuse suffered by those children by distributing to those with a similar wish to obtain sexual gratification from the discomfort suffered by those children.’

The judge viewed some of the appalling images and he told the court that one close-up photograph showed an adult man raping a girl aged about six.

‘That is what we are dealing with so that people like you can sit at your computer and look at it and distribute it,’ he said. Liverpool Crown Court heard that Fella had pretended to be a 13-year-old girl called Becky during online chats with other perverts.